'piper longum' on Serious Eats

We're fortunate to live in a time with more readily available spices than ever before. Imperially-controlled trade routes have been toppled; oceans can be crossed in an afternoon. But a number of flavors have been lost in the transition to a free spice trade. Long pepper is one of them, and its general absence from the modern culinary world is something of a culinary injustice we all owe to ourselves to right. More